Journalist David Thorpe nonts his anxiety over soundg gay by talkg to LGBT ins like Dan Savage and Gee Takei, and explorg the cultural history of the gay voice film and televisn.
Contents:
- A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
- DO I SOUND GAY?
- THIS GUY JT WANTS TO KNOW IF HE SOUNDS GAY
- DO I SOUND GAY? REVIEW – HIGHLY PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY
- FILMMAKER DAVID THORPE DISCS HIS NEW DOCUMENTARY THAT EXPLOR THE ‘GAY VOICE’ PHENOMENON
- REVIEW: ‘DO I SOUND GAY?’ EXAM A MANNER OF SPEAKG
- FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'
- DO I SOUND GAY?
- BE YOUR OWN SELF: THE LSONS OF 'DO I SOUND GAY?' AND 'TANGERE'
A DOCUMENTARIAN WONRS: 'DO I SOUND GAY?'
A film about the stereotype of the "gay voice," wh Dan Savage, David Sedaris, Gee Takei, Margaret Cho & Tim Gunn. In theaters & ble-on-mand July 10! * documentary do i sound gay *
"Charmg, wry, a pellg portra of ternalized homophobia and liberatn" — NPR. Catch the acclaimed documentary DO I SOUND GAY? S., DO I SOUND GAY?
About the film: Is there such a thg as a "gay voice"? Why do some people "sound gay" but not others? Why is the "gay voice" a trigger for bullyg, even vlence?
DO I SOUND GAY? Filmmaker David Thorpe (middle) explor whether there's such a thg as a "gay voice.
DO I SOUND GAY?
In a new documentary, a gay man tri to change the sound of his voice and wonrs why, exactly, he thks he should. * documentary do i sound gay *
In the wake of a bad breakup, journalist and gay activist David Thorpe did what many of do: He took tense ventory of his own flaws and securi, then stepped up one of them to a Thg. A good Thg, as turns out, whose end rult is the charmg documentary Do I Sound Gay?, which Thorpe wryly treats his anxieti about his "gay" voice as an exercise self-improvement, and wds up wh a pellg portra of ternalized homophobia and liberatn.
THIS GUY JT WANTS TO KNOW IF HE SOUNDS GAY
* documentary do i sound gay *
Thorpe adms that gog , he was "repelled" by a speech style that mak gay men sound like "brayg nni.
Back South Carola's Bible Belt, where Thorpe grew up, relativ and childhood iends pot out that he didn't sound gay until he me out of the closet llege.
Friends wh his tight-kn gay circle are more divid: Some nfs to hatg their lispg, anoidal voic; others own gayspeak wh varyg gre of fiance and jubilatn.
DO I SOUND GAY? REVIEW – HIGHLY PERSONAL DOCUMENTARY
Filmmaker David Thorpe uldn't stand the sound of his own voice. So he set out to make a film about "gay voice" and the culture around . * documentary do i sound gay *
Thorpe brgs lguists to ttify that there's ltle evince to support the argument that gay speech is nate.
The explanatn that pleas him most is that gay speech has s origs ls blogy or nro-chemistry than early female fluence: Men who grow up mostly around women tend to mimic feme speech styl — which, Thorpe argu, would expla why some straight men sound gay, and why gays who grow up wh brothers often velop basso profundos. Do I Sound Gay? Is very good on the way many gay men who were bullied as children have learned to turn the hatred of others ward, which helps expla s of gay hyper-masculy and ternal ostracism of effemate men.
FILMMAKER DAVID THORPE DISCS HIS NEW DOCUMENTARY THAT EXPLOR THE ‘GAY VOICE’ PHENOMENON
David Thorpe’s cultural exploratn of the ‘gay voice’ mak cheerful viewg * documentary do i sound gay *
Takg his cue om the swellg ranks of gay celebri (among them Gee Takei, Margaret Cho and the effably funny and ndid David Sedaris) who are willg to speak on mera about liberatg themselv om their own fears, Thorpe realiz he's been askg the wrong qutns. While he was by tryg to iron out his gay voice, New York State legalized gay marriage, and the film's release jt weeks after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across the natn.
A scene om "Do I Sound Gay?. Journalist David Thorpe nonts his anxiety over soundg gay by talkg to LGBT ins like Dan Savage and Gee Takei, and explorg the cultural history of the gay voice film and televisn.
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REVIEW: ‘DO I SOUND GAY?’ EXAM A MANNER OF SPEAKG
Filmmaker David Thorpe asks the qutn, "Do I Sound Gay?" and the birth of the "gay voice" his new documentary. * documentary do i sound gay *
Cric Reviews for Do I Sound Gay? Audience Reviews for Do I Sound Gay?
David Thorpe wants to make very clear that there is no such thg as “gay voice.
” That might seem like a strange talkg pot for a filmmaker promotg a new documentary, Do I Sound Gay, which explor exactly that phenomenon. But, as Thorpe tells TIME, “‘gay voice’ is jt shorthand for the stereotype of the gay voice.
FILMMAKER AND SPEECH PATHOLOGIST WEIGH IN ON WHAT IT MEANS TO 'SOUND GAY'
This documentary, wrten and directed by David Thorpe, dissects the stereotype of the so-lled gay voice. * documentary do i sound gay *
There is no voice that every gay person has and that is limed to gay people. He spoke to proment gay figur like Tim Gunn, Dan Savage and David Sedaris. Do I Sound Gay, which buts New York Cy and on VOD on July 10, is about more than jt one man’s voice.
“I wouldn’t have ma the film if my voice weren’t a proxy for my feelgs about beg gay and my feelgs of self-worth, ” Thorpe says. Was the disfort fueled more by other people’s reactns or your own ternalized homophobia?
DO I SOUND GAY?
In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe search for the orig of the so-lled "gay voice" and documents his own attempts (wh speech pathologist San Sank) to sound "ls gay." * documentary do i sound gay *
And gay culture, men receive imag that mascule is good and effemate is bad.
My biggt fear, which was mostly irratnal but sometim jtified, is that wasn’t until people heard my voice that they realized that I am gay, and that once they realized that, they would treat me differently or dislike me.
Mostly I wanted to know where my voice me om and why so many other gay men had the same voice. No one really knows why someone sounds gay, whether or not they are gay. It was kd of liberatg—fally someone has acknowledged that they don’t like my gay voice.
BE YOUR OWN SELF: THE LSONS OF 'DO I SOUND GAY?' AND 'TANGERE'
Very personal docu explor gay stereotyp, self-disvery. Read Common Sense Media's Do I Sound Gay? review, age ratg, and parents gui. * documentary do i sound gay *
But when I me out, sudnly I jt wanted to be gay, gay, gay. My parents would always say, “Why do everythg have to be gay wh you? The documentary lv to the history of cema, showg how many villas are picted as effemate men wh the stereotypil “gay voice, ” down to Disney characters like Jafar om Aladd and Sr om The Ln Kg.
Do you image the creativ over at Disney havg some nsc tentn to have gay-soundg villas? That moment The Ln Kg where the parrot says, “There’s one every fay”—every gay man I know is like, “Yeah, there’s a fag every fay.
You terview some celebri, like Tim Gunn, who are beloved for their personas, which clu soundg stereotypilly gay. I uld see that there were men who sound gay who were popular, and was sential to go to someone like Tim Gunn and say, “So Tim, how do you feel about your voice? ” Some people who aren’t gay thk that when you e out, you snap your fgers and you’re happy wh who you are.